Oh one more thing...
Dawned on me that this PM i sent to Rich's alter-ego Burnsy after his first appearance on the forum and abuse of various members, thinking he was a just a normal (angry) punter is what is still niggling him.
This was clearly sent straight to rich I discovered last night when I found an email from Rich referencing it. Thought I should include for completeness.
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Hi Burnsy - I reckon you're just stirring the pot by naming other forum members like that. Rich behaved like a total ..... on the forum, threatening legal action and using abusive language, when they were holding him to account based on his previous posts which were pretty forthright.
Just so you know, this is how I feel about AR and Rich.
All the claims of 'bolt-on' supremacy over all other pipes, no need for tuning and how much cooler the pipe would run were all incorrect and despite this Rich has never done anything other than bloody mindedly repeat those claims, and in my opinion this is false advertising and misleading buyers, which is much worse than anything any forum members have said. If he had qualified his claims, which he could have done, rather than engaging in personal attacks then he would have won more friends rather than alienate them.
I've tried to keep my posts civil because I still haven't got the result I was expecting and I want a replacement for my broken pipe. I haven't moaned publically that both the mechanics I showed the broken pipe to suggested that it was always going to break because of the very narrow contact point and showed me examples of how it should have been done - which I've no doubt is how the pipe will come back. Frankly I've also toned it down because I feel intimidated by Rich's public performance and that makes me uncomfortable dealing with them as i still have to currently. I would be extremely unlikely to ever buy AR again because of this.
I genuinely like the look and sound of the pipe but I've spent good money extracting the performance to the credit of ProTwin and Tuneboy, not AR, and I'm pretty pissed at the failure of this part.
If you have ordered the pipe then be under no illusions about the work required to get it to perform. If you can find a tuner who uses Tuneboy I can highly recommend going down that route - the bike runs really well now. Good luck with your purchase.